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Veteran Congress leader 92. was on a ventilator since yesterday for multiple complications including breathing trouble and four time Chief Minister of Kerala and former Union Minister Kannoth Karunakaran died at a private hospital Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday. Karunakaran was serious for several days, his condition had improved earlier this week and was taken off ventilator but he had been put back on ventilator support since Wednesday.Karunakaran was admitted to hospital with severe breathing problem and fever.At the time of his demise, family members, including son, daughter and other state Congress supporters were by his side.

Nksasgar-Sagar Media Inc:Iran hit by an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude on Monday, state television quoted an official as saying. Quake rocked at 10:12 p.m. local time (1842 GMT) on Monday, IRIB reported late on Monday and epicenter was in the town of Hosseinabad, 28.6 degrees north latitude and 59.1 degrees east longitude, at a depth of five kilometers, the Iranian Seismological Center said on its website. An unknown number of people have been killed in remote mountain villages in southeastern Iran city of Hosein Abad province of Kerman hit by an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude on Monday, state television reported. "In some villages in the mountains several people have been killed reportedly ... but we have no specific figures yet," said a local official in Kerman province, where the quake happened. "Access to these villages is very difficult." Seven people have been killed in an earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale that struck Iran's southeastern province of ...